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In focus - The call of the wild
When French sales, distribution and finance outfit Wild Bunch signed a deal with US investment group Continental Entertainment Capital (CEC) in early September, it marked yet another step in the company's bid to bolster a planned European distribution network.The deal is a rarity. With all the international banking and US ...
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United states - Exhibition space
Arthur Cohen and Richard Witkowski did not waste any time when they came up with the idea of founding Iklipz in early 2006. Ninety days after their original conversation, the site was up and running, allowing film-makers to upload their own works free of charge and participate in an online ...
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Quills
Dir: Philip Kaufman. US. 2000. 120 mins.Prod cos: Industry Entertainment. US dist: Fox Searchlight. Int'l dist: 20th Century Fox. Prods: Nick Wechsler, Peter Kaufman, Julia Chasman. Scr: Doug Wright, from his own play. DoP: Roger Stoffers. Prod des: Martin Childs. Ed: Peter Boyle. Mus: Stephen Warbeck. Main cast: Geoffrey Rush, ...
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United States - The English track
Louis Belanger is sitting in a tent deep in the Quebec wilderness, 700km north-east of Montreal. The location is doubling for Canada's Northwest Territory, 2,000km to the northwest. "This is the closest we could get to the real thing while making the logistics possible," he says. Twenty-one days into principal ...
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United Kingdom - The ringleaders
Through his work in the Scottish exhibition sector, Nick Varley knew that putting classic films on screen had a number of obstacles. "If you want to do a good retrospective, you have to find a print that's worth screening. Programming was being compromised because of the state of prints and ...
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United Kingdom - Small wonder
UK independent publisher Quercus may be small, but it should not escape the notice of any film producers hungry for literary material. Just two years since being launched by publishing industry veteran Anthony Cheetham (who founded Century and Orion) and his business partner Mark Smith, Quercus has picked up a ...
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THE FACE OF PUSAN
One of the most beloved and colourful figures in the South Korean industry, Kim Dong-ho can take some of the credit for putting Korean cinema on the international map. As founding director of the Pusan International Film Festival in 1996, now Asia's biggest industry event, it is Kim who shored ...
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China - A new dawn
The Sun Also Rises, the third film by Chinese maverick director Jiang Wen, adopts an entirely different narrative and visual style to his previous films, the semi-autobiographical In The Heat Of The Sun and satirical drama Devils On The Doorstep.Gone is the stark realism of those films, replaced by a ...
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PUSAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - STRENGTH IN NUMBERS
The Pusan International Film Festival (Piff), Asia's most dynamic cinema showcase, is growing up fast. Celebrating its 12th edition this year, it is expanding broadly with new events and initiatives, while also increasing the premieres in its main sections. A record 92 films (out of 275 films from 64 countries) ...
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PUSAN PROGRAMMER PICKS
LEE SANG-YONG, KOREAN CINEMA PROGRAMMERWho's That Knocking At My Door' Dir: Yang Hea-hoonFeature debut from the director of Cannes shorts competitor My Dear Rosetta, this film is 'a gem' that deals with violence and growing pains.Hello, Stranger (world premiere) Dir: Kim Dong-hyunA glimpse behind the veil of South Korean society, ...
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Q&A WITH FESTIVAL CO-DIRECTOR LEE YONG KWAN
JEAN NOH, SCREEN INTERNATIONAL: You are one of PIFF's founding members. How did it all start'It all started in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when I was a professor at Kyung-sung University in Busan. I used to get together on the beaches of Gwang-an-li after classes with a group ...
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PUSAN'S AFM STAKES ITS CLAIM
Now in its second year as a fully fledged market, Pusan's Asian Film Market (October 8-11) is still relatively small and takes place at one of the busiest times of the year - but is already considered a key event by many international buyers and sellers.In its first edition last ...
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Co-production PRO & Star Summit Asia
The Asian Film Market is striving to be a full-service market and already encompasses the contents market, projects market PPP and locations and production services convention Bifcom.Last year, the market also launched talent showcase Star Summit Asia, which aims to stimulate co-productions by showcasing Asian talent, and this year is ...
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Dr. T And The Women
Dir: Robert Altman. US. 2000. 120 mins.Prod co: Sandcastle 5. Int'l sales: Initial Entertainment Group (1) 310 315 1722. Prod: Robert Altman, James McLindon. Scr: Anne Rapp. DoP: Jan Kiesser. Prod des: Stephen Altman. Editor: Geraldine Peroni. Music: Lyle Lovett. Main cast: Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern, ...
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ASIAN FILM MARKET BUZZ
THAILANDThailand's Mono Film (which sold the remake rights for romantic drama Me ... Myself to Korea's K&Entertainment earlier this year) is showing the latest footage of Fighting Beat (Pahuyut) - a martial-arts drama set on Phi Phi Island and directed by Piti Jaturaphat - and Theeratorn Siriphunvaraporn's romantic comedy Gig ...
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International - The Russians are coming
Russian films made their mark this weekend as three titles from the territory collectively accounted for 4.7% of the international revenue from the top 40 films over the three-day period. Two new entries - Mongol and 12 - both made the top 30 this weekend while Day Watch, the follow-up ...
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Chasin' Jason
ANALYSIS: INTERNATIONAL BOX-OFFICE WEEKEND SEPTEMBER 21-23(Last3-dayweek)Film (origin)gross $ScrsCume $Terr1(1)The Bourne Ultimatum (US)$14,159,7173,902$145,587,801492(New)Resident Evil: Extinction (US)$7,878,375992$8,144,67043(9)I Know Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (US)$5,099,7801,661$26,864,423284(2)The Simpsons Movie (US)$5,035,2741,544$332,055,644115(11)Superbad (US)$4,981,3311,043$9,908,56186(7)Ratatouille (US)$4,656,0002,535$216,416,000277(8)No Reservations (US)$4,603,5662,199$30,348,573458(3)Hero (Jap)$4,418,753475$39,168,88019(New)The Mafia, The Salesman (S Kor)$4,236,119442$4,970,196110(4)Hairspray (US)$3,968,5961,794$48,521,4783011(5)Shrek The Third (US)$3,285,3321,107$464,034,6491612(New)A Love (S Kor)$3,266,741388$3,862,268113(6)Rush Hour 3 (US)$3,071,3882,150$74,081,4293214(14)Disturbia (US)$2,868,1271,594$31,928,5223015(13)Atonement (UK-Fr-US)$2,833,663594$13,897,057216(New)Mongol (Rus-Ger-Kaz-Mon)$2,776,244356$2,776,244317(12)Run, Fat Boy, ...
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Box office: data - Shining example
One of the world's largest-scale experiments has suggested strong audience demand for digitally restored archive material.The UK Summer of British Film season, organised by the UK Film Council and the BBC, showed classic films at 136 theatres signed up to the National Digital Cinema network. Audiences across the country were ...
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CJ, China Film to co-produce Cheung's Tangka
Leading Korean investor/distributor CJ Entertainment has announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with China 's largest film company, China Film Group, to co-produce Tibet-set drama Tangka. The film will be directed by Jacob Cheung who most recently directed pan-Asian co-production A Battle Of Wits , starring Andy ...
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Studios clear decks ready for autumn schedule
The weekend looks to be a slow one as the distributors churn through the remnants of summer and prepare their autumn line-ups. Universal/UPI's The Bourne Ultimatum has led the way for the last few weekends and may stay top in the absence of any obvious strong challenge. The ...